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mom's sink
Aug. 26th, 2020 08:52 pmMy mom wanted a new faucet in her basement bathroom. She doesn't use it very often, so it was seized up. I couldn't even get it to turn. So she bought a new cheapie faucet. I looked underneath the sink and determined that I wouldn't be able to remove the old one, since everything was rusted shut. We decided to replace the whole sink and faucet.
I took off work today, to replace it. It went more easily than I expected. It took four hours, including a half-hour trip back to the store because I had bought the wrong sink. There are both round and oval sinks with the same name (Aragon, for some reason), and the shape was in the fine print on the box. Then I had to run to the hardware store because I couldn't figure out how to hook up the small pipe with the big pipe. I studied the products there and remembered how it's done, so I didn't have to buy anything. And then one final trip home to get a chisel. I had brought along all the plumbing-related tools and supplies I thought I might need, but it didn't occur to me I'd need a chisel to scrape up the old caulk.
The only thing I screwed up was that after caulking the sink down, I moved it and smeared the caulk. So I'll have to go back and fix that.
My mom asked me how I learned to do this plumbing. I'm not sure I ever learned it. It's just something you do. I don't know - there's got to be something I did that's not innate understanding. I can't remember if anyone ever helped me, or showed me how any of it was done. Or if I just figured out how it all went together by taking some apart.
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I took off work today, to replace it. It went more easily than I expected. It took four hours, including a half-hour trip back to the store because I had bought the wrong sink. There are both round and oval sinks with the same name (Aragon, for some reason), and the shape was in the fine print on the box. Then I had to run to the hardware store because I couldn't figure out how to hook up the small pipe with the big pipe. I studied the products there and remembered how it's done, so I didn't have to buy anything. And then one final trip home to get a chisel. I had brought along all the plumbing-related tools and supplies I thought I might need, but it didn't occur to me I'd need a chisel to scrape up the old caulk.
The only thing I screwed up was that after caulking the sink down, I moved it and smeared the caulk. So I'll have to go back and fix that.
My mom asked me how I learned to do this plumbing. I'm not sure I ever learned it. It's just something you do. I don't know - there's got to be something I did that's not innate understanding. I can't remember if anyone ever helped me, or showed me how any of it was done. Or if I just figured out how it all went together by taking some apart.
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